“Mamma Rungu” Kathleen Colson, founder and executive director of Vermont’s BOMA Fund, joins village women in
2008 in celebrating 20 new native business start ups in Kamboe located in the Great Rift Alley of Kenya, Africa. Donations to the Vermont-based fund helps support African women in small businesses.
Photo courtesy of Kathleen Colson

By Lou Varricchio
newmarketpress@denpubs.com
When Kathleen Colson was a national representative of the National Democratic Socialist Party
while attending St. Lawrence University during the
radical 1970s, she never dreamed that her future self
would be bringing capitalist concepts of financial
independence to some of Africa’s poorest women.
Following a first trip to Kenya while a student in
the waning months of the ‘70s, Colson didn’t realize that the fleeting first visit to Africa would someday grow into both an emotional and humanitarian
bond.
After living life as an anti-establishment ski bum
out West, Colson found herself working in marketing and sales in the corporate world. But after a few
return trips to Kenya by Colson, Hollywood’s 1985
tear-jerker motion picture “Out of Africa” burst
upon the big screen. The Academy Award-winning
film glamorized wildlife and author Karen Blixen’s
romantic wanderings on the veldt; the film reignited Colson’s, and others, curiosity about traveling to
Africa.

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SWIMMING HOLE — This brave soul is at the end of his rope above a deep
pool in the Otter Creek last week. Summer swimming holes abound in Addison County and include favorite locales along the Falls of Bristol, the New
Haven River along Route 116, the former site of the Dog Team Tavern, Bittersweet Falls, and Three Mile Bridge Road.
Photo by Stephanie Simon

See AFRICA, page 14

Festival-on-the-Green returns for year 32
A collaboration of community, arts
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Festival-on-the-Green
kicks off its 32nd anniversary season during the week of July
11-17, commanding the spotlight under a big white tent on
the Village Green in Middlebury.
An highlight of the summer, the festival has remained
faithful to its mission of bringing top-quality, free, familyfriendly entertainment to the residents and guests of Addison County since its debut.
The 2010 festival week kicks off at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July
11, with a performance by Kinobe and Soul Beat Africa, touted as the new voice of Ugandan music.

Brown Bag Specials, performances designed for families,
are offered during the noon hour Monday through Friday.
No Strings Marionette Company—the husband-wife team
of puppeteers Dan Baginski and Barbara Paulson—present
Treasure Hunt at noon on Monday, July 12, the first event of
the popular noontime Brown Bag series.
Other Brown Bag performers include musician-storyteller
Rik Palieri on Tuesday; singer-songwriter-educators Gary
Dulabaum and Josh Brooks on Wednesday; magician Tom
Verner on Thursday; and the lively-goofy improvisational
Swing Peepers on Friday.
The festival will feature Middlebury native Jer Coons at 7
p.m. on Monday, July 12. Coons hit the ground running in

2009 with an impressive batch of new songs earning him
comparisons to a younger John Mayer, or an older Nick
Jonas, and everything in between. His song Legs is currently playing in Hollister stores.
The Doughboys, Middlebury’s premier funky faculty rock
band, showcases the talents of Steve Abbott, acoustic guitar,
keyboard and vocals at 8:30 p.m.
Mike and Ruthy, the folk-rock duo formerly of the Mammals, make a festival appearance at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July
13, to play songs from a new album.
Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand appear at 8:30 p.m. on
Tuesday, with an ensemble.

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SATURDAY July 10, 2010

THE EAGLE - 3

In search of Bigfoot
‘Sasquatch’ in the North Country
By Lou Varricchio
newmarketpress@denpubs.com

s this Bigfoot? Artist Kevin Anderson’s life size steel and bronze
sculpture of the extinct ape Gigantopithecus at Hartwick College
in Oneonta, N.Y.
Photo courtesy of Kevin Anderson

See BIGFOOT, page 9

COUPON

CORRECTION
Last week’s page 1 story
about the Mitchell family’s
Breakfast for the Veterans
event—to be held at the
Brandon American Legion
Post 55, July 24, at 8 a.m.—
is held for area veterans and
their guests.
This second annual event
is a special day to honor
Vermont veterans from
World War II to the Middle
Easter conflicts.
Unfortunately, due to
limited funds and resources, it is not open to the
general public.
The Eagle regrets any
confusion. We thank all of
our brave veterans for their
service to the nation.
—Lou Varricchio

Do creatures long considered extinct still stalk the Earth?
Tim Albright of Castleton thinks so.
Albright, an amateur cryptozoologist (a person who studies legendary animals), has been searching for Bigfoot — aka
Sasquatch as the ape-like creature is known in Native American legends of the Pacific Northwest.
The 67-year-old retired security guard got interested in
Bigfoot when he learned about sightings of the beast near
Vanderburg Mountain near Whitehall, N.Y. and in the socalled Bennington Triangle surrounding Glastonbury
Mountain in southern Vermont.
“Bigfoot has a very wide range,” Albright said. “There are
reports of the creature in the Adirondack foothills as well as
in the Taconic and Green Mountains.”

There are organizations focused on Bigfoot in New England and New York — the best known being NESRA, the
Northeast Sasquatch Researchers Association — but Albright prefers to work alone in the woods dressed head-totoe in hunter camo with a camera and portable tape recorder
— and plenty of DEET insect-repellent.
“Some of the research groups have good intentions, but
then they go barreling into the woods with ATVs and kids
in tow,” Albright said. “Heck, that’s a sure way of chasing

talk.
“My boyfriend and I are
all through, I’m going back
to New Jersey, ”she said.
Bam, she landed that
clinker like ton a bricks.
Do I assume she’s just
conversationally hung out a
vacancy sign? Or do I read
a note of sadness in her
tone from which she’s trying to milk sympathetic council?
Hard to say, when you’re in the moment, and you’re clueless.
Ignoring her relationship status update I ask, in a way
not unlike a doctor asks a patient when they might have
first noticed the swelling, what she plans to do when she
gets home to New Jersey.
“I have no idea. No plans. I don’t really know.”
Mmm. It wasn’t an—I have no idea, I have no plans, I
don’t really know, because I’m heart broken over my
break-up.
It was more like an—I have no idea, I have no plans, I
don’t really know, so if you ask me to go for a ride right
now, I’ll go.
Was I savvy enough to read between the lines? No. So I
played her cue with boring sincerity—“Well, you don’t
have to know. You’ll figure it out.”
Hello, operator? Yes, I’d like to place a call. I’m looking
for—uh, the family jewels; I seemed to have misplaced
them.
Ah, the pain of a skinny white boy bred in the lap of a
sturdy, warm, solid Christian home that oozed goodness
from every pore; a clean home from which the F word
never flew. A home where parents clinked tiny glasses of
orange juice over breakfasts of cereal with fruit, buttered
white toast, and cups of coffee, every morning. A home
that hosted cozy, chocolate chip cookie-themed, tradition
steeped, Jesus-based, cold-snowy-jingle-belled family only
holidays, the likes of which singer Andy William’s late
1960s-era Christmas television specials couldn’t hold a
candle.
The skinny white boy couldn’t know what ma’s and
pa’s relationship was really like, but that didn’t matter.
That the skinny white boy’s needs were always cared for,
a by product of ma’s and pa’s disciplined relationship and
fundamental rearing; that mattered.
The skinny white boy believed—well beneath his core—
that his type of home life was the good life, and the only
life. He thought every family in the world opened presents on Christmas morning.
What that type of home life is happens to be the type
that can set you up for a charmed life. What that type of
home life is not, is the type that teaches you how to pick
up women for potential easy lovin’. And here now—at almost 50 years old and without a wife and kids—easy
lovin’ is the only lovin’ there is.
I can’t seem to navigate well through this meeting between the pretty girl and myself. But reader, don’t give up
hope, the story continues.
To be continued.

SATURDAY July 10, 2010

Will the Moon be still as bright?
O, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the Moon be still as bright. —Lord Byron

I

am gazing at a color postcard of a beautiful oil painting,
titled “Devonian Moon”, created by my friend the
artist and amateur paleontologist Kristen Wyckhoff.
Kristen’s painting depicts a giant, bright Moon shining
through gauzelike clouds above the shoreline of a prehistoric
sea. Kristen’s speculative scene shows an upstate New York
vista as it probably looked 380 million years ago.
Kristen’s original 24” x 36” canvas imagines the Town of
Gilboa, N.Y., southwest of Albany, as it looked during the impossibly remote Devonian Period of geologic time. This prehistoric scene is both alien and familiar to modern eyes, especially the appearance of a larger-than-normal full Moon.
During the construction of the Gilboa Dam and Schoharie
Reservoir in the 1920s, the fossilized remains of Earth’s earliest trees were uncovered; these towering trees were the ancestors of modern ferns and horsetails. The Gilboa forest
grew near the shore of the vast, inland sea depicted by Kristen in “Devonian Moon”.
The discovery of these world famous fossilized tree stumps
and other plant parts made scientific news around the world.
Today, several fossil stumps—members of the genus Eospermatopteris—may be observed at both the Gilboa Museum and
at an outdoor display in front of the local post office.
Kristen was inspired to paint “Devonian Moon” when she
first came across a reference about the Moon being closer to
Earth during Devonian times.
“I learned that the Moon was half the distance closer to the
Earth than it is today,” she said. “That inspired me to paint
‘Devonian Moon.’”
Kristen’s depiction of our Moon, as it appeared millions of
years before dinosaurs emerged on Earth, begs the question—
what of our Moon in the distant future? Astronomers tell us
that the Moon is slowly receding from Earth.
The Moon's orbit has been growing ever larger—estimated
at a slow rate of 3.8 centimeters annually—since prehistoric
times. Factor millions of years past and Luna was closer to
Earth; but factor millions of years hence, and Luna will be
farther from the Earth.
“Tidal friction, caused by the movement of the tidal bulge
around the Earth, takes energy out of the Earth and puts it
into the Moon's orbit—making the Moon's orbit bigger, but a
bit paradoxically, the Moon actually moves slower,” according to Dr. Britt Scharringhausen of Beloit College in Wisconsin. Scharringhausen is a professor of astronomy and physics.
“The Earth's rotation is slowing down because of this. One

hundred years from now, the
day will be 2 milliseconds
longer than it is now. This
same process took place billions of years ago, but the
Moon was slowed down by
the tides raised on it by the
Earth. That's why the Moon
always keeps the same face
pointed toward the Earth. Because the Earth is so much
larger than the Moon, this
process, called tidal locking,
took place very quickly, in a
By Lou Varricchio
few tens of millions of years,”
she said.
While it won’t be as large in the sky as it is today, the Moon
of the far future will—with a nod to Lord Byron—be still as
bright 500 million years hence.
Scharringhausen writes that just because the Moon is moving away from us inexorably, it will most certainly not recede
so far from us that it will fade from naked-eye view.
“Changing the Moon's distance by a few percent won't
have any significant effect on our ability to see it,” she notes.
“Changing the Moon's average distance by a few percent—
which is what will happen over the next 500 million years or
so—will similarly not prevent us from being able to see the
Moon, and to see it quite easily with the unaided eye.”
While the size of our future Moon will appear visibly
smaller here on Earth, its surface brightness will be about the
same as it appears right now.
“This is because although we will be receiving less total
light from the Moon—since it is farther from Earth—that light
will get concentrated into a smaller region of our field of
view, and the two effects cancel out,” Scharringhausen adds.
While the vastness and seeming indifference of the cosmos
offers up scant surety, we can take small solace in knowing
that hearts 500 million years hence—if they survive that
long—will likely be still as loving, and the Moon will be
about as bright.
Note: To view Kristen Wyckhoff’s painting “Devonian
Moon”, please see www.artbykristen.com (color postcards of
this painting, suitable for framing, are also available). To
learn more about the famous Gilboa tree fossils, see
www.gilboafossils.org.
Lou Varricchio, M.Sc., lives in Vermont and was a science writer
at the NASA Ames Research Center in California. He is a member
of the NASA-JPL Solar System Ambassador program in Vermont
and is a recipient of the U.S. Civil Air Patrol’s Gen. Charles
“Chuck” Yeager Achievement Award in Aerospace Education.

Seeing

Stars

Vermont’s forgotten petro spill

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ecent petrochemical-related events at latitude 28,
longitude 88 bring to mind a somewhat similar—but
smaller-in-scale—event some 25 years ago at latitude
44, longitude 73.
Both spills involved petroleum, regulations, leaks and the
quintessential governance question of our times: pursuing
your chosen enterprise, you must do everything in accordance with the applicable regulations, obtain official approval
for equipment design and installation, and pass all operational inspections. And if there’s a failure—whose fault is it?
From the regulator ’s past and present behavior, we can see
that the answer would be: even if you meet all our requirements and there’s a failure, it’s not our fault.
This existential question was already under examination in
the construction industry before the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill—actually in Williamstown, Vt., although not in its own little
“gulf”, and actually involving benzene and related petroleum-based volatile organic compounds, although not crude oil
and methane.
Architects and builders had already come to realize that
there’s a better way to get the building you want than writing
it all out, in stupefying regulatory detail—in the project specifications manual which traditionally had been intended to
control every aspect of materials and installation.
The better way had already come to be called performance
specifications.
It was already beginning to replace the prescriptive specifications method we had been taught in university vocationaltrade schools.
For example, in concrete work the objective was in-place
concrete strong enough to support the building—a target
strength usually described as 3,000 pounds compressive
strength per cross-sectional square inch; architects like me
wrote the specs to describe and control every detail of the
materials: the mixing, and the placement.
Somewhere near the last page of the manual there was
mention of the 3,000 psi target (how it would be tested for,
and when removal and replacement would be required).
Understandably, the concrete contractors didn’t like that
heads-we-win-tails-you-lose approach; they defended themselves by demanding that we designers approve, separately
and specifically, each aspect of materials and installation.
Ultimately, the architects and engineers (mostly) agreed,
and now it’s more common to designate the desired design
objective for concrete but not every little aspect of materials,
mixing, and placement.
Public education chose to stay with prescriptive, not performance, specs as the recent Vermont-led lawsuit against the Federal No Child Left Behind requirement—almost all students
“proficient” in reading and math by 2014—has demonstrated.
In the BP spill case, every aspect of the deep-water drilling
had been prescribed and regulated by government—right up

to the moment of failure.
In the Williamstown situation, the dry-cleaning business Unifirst sought and received special official Montpelier sewage-disposal-design-and-installation-assistance and approval for its
septic system. The installation and operation met every
regulatory standard. Then it
failed.
Benzene showed up in drinking fountains at the next-door
elementary school. Mothers—how can I say this graciously—
reacted negatively.
Vermont Health Commissioner Roberta Coffin defended
both her department and the Agency of Natural Resources by
stonewalling.
Protestors—many of Vermont’s Beautiful People class—at
the health department headquarters in Burlington yelled
“You’re not gonna treat us like a bunch of farmers!”
Then, somehow, it all went away behind closed-doors. Was
the regulatory system ever held as being even partially responsible for its deficient prescriptive specs? Not officially.
Unofficially, in secret legal bargaining, maybe. We’ll never
know.
In the off-shore New Orleans situation, the same governmental regulatory oversight was enforced on the compliant
oil-drillers.
The installation and operation met every regulatory standard and inspection. Then it failed.
Oil showed up on the surfaces of water and wildlife. The
public—how can I say this graciously—reacted negatively.
Will it ultimately all be secretly settled, just as in
Williamstown? Probably.
Will the feds reject even partial responsibility? Probably
yes. Will they relinquish writer-and-inspector job-creating
prescription specs and adopt a performance spec approach to
regulation? Probably no.
If you’re bemused by my lat. 44, long. 73 map reference (an
inland locale), you’re probably one of those non-rural New
Vermonters who doesn’t recognize such Old Vermont land
and farming terminology as headland, link, pins, proud, rod,
rood, rowen, or summer meadow either.
It's not in my job description to bring you to “proficient” in
Anglo-Saxon/Middle English /northern New England etymolog, without bonus pay. You’ll have to look it up. Warning:
some language and geographical proficiency required.
Longtime Vermont resident Martin Harris now lives in Tennesee.

SATURDAY July 10, 2010

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Centenarian
dies at 102
BRANDON — Susan Ellen Margaret Goodnow, age 102,
died Tuesday, June 29, 2010, at her home where she has
resided for the past 63 years. Mrs. Goodnow was born in
Haddam, Conn. on Jan. 22, 1908. She married Earl Goodnow
in 1926 and moved to Vermont
in 1927.
Mrs. Goodnow had worked
at Goodnow’s Orchards and
Turkey farm in Brandon for
over 20 years.She had also
worked at the Brandon Training School for several years
before joining the staff at
Shapiro’s Department Store in
Brandon for 30 years. She belonged to the Kings Daughters
of the Catholic Church and
taught bible study in her earlier years.
She was predeceased by her
Susan Ellen
husband Earl Goodnow in
Margaret Goodnow 1975, son Wallace Goodnow in
1997, daughter Barbara Berry
in 2004, grandsons Paul Steven Goodnow in 1984 and Wallace Goodnow in 1981, half brothers Daniel Duffy in 2001
and Ralph Duffy in 1942 and a half sister Irene Burchstead
in 2009.
Several family members survive.
The funeral service was held July 2 at the Miller &
Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon. The Rev. Richard
White, Pastor of the Brandon Congregational Church will
officiate. The graveside committal service and burial followed in the family lot, at Pine Hill Cemetery.
Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made, in her
memory to the Brandon Area Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 232,
Brandon 05733 or the Rutland Area Visiting Nurse and Hospice, 7 Albert Cree Dr., Rutland, 05701.

Join the Skipper on
a three-hour cruise
LARABEE’S POINT — The Henry Sheldon Museum presents two Lake Champlain Twilight History Cruises on Tuesday, July 13, and Thursday, July 22, on the historic waters
of southern Lake Champlain. Join guest speaker Tom Hughes, manager of Crown Point State Historic Site for an
evening cruise aboard the Carillon.
The boat is a 60 ft. replica of a 1920s Thousand Islandstyle cruise boat.
Hughes will recount the history of Lake Champlain as it
flows north from Hands Cove to the open lake. Passengers
are welcome to bring cameras and binoculars aboard.
The three-hour cruises are comfortable and informal. The
Carillon departs promptly at 5:30 p.m. from Larrabee’s
Point in Shoreham, adjacent to the Fort Ticonderoga ferry at
the end of Route 74 in Shoreham. Call 802-388-2117 for
prices and details.

Former area resident Laura Ouimette will perform an evening of classical dance music with violinist Mitchell Drury at the Vergennes Opera House on July 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Former Vergennes pianist
returns for classical concert
VERGENNES — Former area resident Laura Ouimette
will perform an evening of classical dance music with violinist Mitchell Drury at the Vergennes Opera House on July
15 at 7:30 p.m.
The concert will offer a selection of different styles of
dance music and will include Saint-Saens' Havanaise
(Cuban habanera), the virtuosic Sarasate Introduction and
Tarantella, a Wieniawski Chanson Polonaise (mazurka), a
Telemann Baroque dance suite (gigue, allemande), a short
tango, and other dance inspired music. The performance
promises to be lively, entertaining and accessible for all
ages and interests.
Mitchell Drury is a former student of Joyce Bovey, Kent
Coleman and Eva Szekely, beginning his studies of violin
in Mukilteo, Washington. He was a member of the Seattle
Youth Symphony, the All Northwest orchestra and was concert master of the Washington All-State orchestra. He is currently working toward a master ’s degree in violin performance with Ronald Patterson at the University of Washington. Having completed his undergraduate degree at the
University of Missouri, he performed with many regional
orchestras in the mid-west including the Arkansas Sym-

phony and the Illinois Symphony. Mitchell has spent past
summers with the College Light Opera Company, the AIMS
Festival Orchestra in Graz, the National Repertory Orchestra and the Missouri Symphony Society.
Laura Ouimette began studying piano with Julia Blocksma in Vermont, and soon followed this by pursuing her interest in the pipe organ with Kevin Parizo. She received
her BA in music from Wesleyan University in Connecticut
under organist Ron Ebrecht, and is now pursuing her master ’s degree in organ performance with Carole Terry at the
University of Washington. She has performed at the International Diapason Festival in L'viv, Ukraine, for various
festivals in Jalisco and Nayarit Mexico including at UNIVA
and for the International Festival of Migratory Birds, as
well on various concert series in New England, New York,
Colorado and Washington. She is currently serving as the
organist for Blessed Sacrament Parish in the University District of Seattle, Washington.
The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will run for just
over one hour. Tickets may be purchased at the door and
are $5 each with children under age 12 free. Call 877-6737
for more information.

OnCampus
The following area residents have been named to the dean's list
at Providence College for the Spring 2010 semester: Emma
Brown of Bristol, a member of the class of 2011, and Joseph
Sanderson of Orwell, a member of the class of 2013.
Stefan Leo-Nyquist, of Shelburne, has been awarded a
University Fellowship at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., allowing him to pursue independent study on
campus this summer, with assistance from a faculty mentor.
Leo-Nyquist, a graduate of Champlain Valley Union High
School, is a member of the class of 2011 at St. Lawrence.
Keil Corey, class of 2010, at Skidmore College, earned
honors for the spring semester. He is the son of Michael and
Diane Corey of Bristol. Highest honors are awarded for a
quality point ratio of 3.670 or more from a possible 4.0. Honors are awarded for a grade point ratio of 3.4 to 3.669.

A FAMILY AFFAIR—The DeMers family gathered together for a ceremony in New Haven last week to dedicate the land known as
River Road Park to Leon DeMers, Jr. The property was donated to the Town of New Haven by DeMers to be used as a public park.
“The town is grateful for his many contributions to our town and this very generous gift,” said Suzy Roorda, New Haven’s parks
and recreation director. A plaque was placed alongside a perennial flower bed to honor the occasion.

The following local students have achieved dean's honors or
high honors at Connecticut College: Charles Barstow, a resident of Middlebury, has been named to the dean's high honors list. Neil MacKenzie, a resident of Brandon, has been
named to the dean's honors list, and Ryan Thuma, a resident
of Middlebury, has been named to the dean's honors list.

SALISBURY — As a result of the tragic deaths
on frozen Lake Dunmore
last winter, the Salisbury
Fire Department has been
raising funds for vital
ice-rescue equipment; in
addition, Salisbury F.D.
is stressing needed winter rescue techniques.
Volunteers hosted a
breakfast at the Salisbury
Elementary School along
with a dance and an auction
at
Middlebury
American Legion Post 27.
In addition to providing Salisbury firefighters
with free use of the Legion hall, they were given a surprise when Salisbury Fire Chief Gary
Smith was presented a
check for the amount of
$2,500 which is the cost of
a new ice rescue sled that
they need.

Unique clocks to be auctioned
VERGENNES — Over 25 Vermont artists have donated their
time and talent to create and decorate clocks for a Vergennes Lions Club fundraising project,
“It’s About Time”. Each working
clock is unique and one of a kind.
The clocks are decorated using
paints, stained glass, decoupage,
wood-burning, jewelry and
beads, nature items, found objects and more.
The Vergennes Lions Club will
sell the clocks by silent auction
during French Heritage Days in
Vergennes on Saturday, July 10,
at Creative Space Gallery, 235
Main St., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
A public preview of the clocks
and an artist reception will be
held at the Creative Space
Gallery on Thursday, July 8.
Funds raised through the
“About Time” project will help
meet Vergennes Lions Club goals
to help those with vision and
hearing impairments, benefit the
elderly and people with special
needs. Contact Betsey Benton at
802 877-3243, or Paul Vachon at
802 877-2718 for details.

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The Vergennes Lions Club will hold a silent auction of over
25 uniquely decorated clocks on Saturday, July 10, 11 a.m.-4
p.m. at Creative Space Gallery, 235 Main St., Vergennes.

lish—meet at white tent (Silent
Auction) on Park Street–Free.
2:00–2:30 Matt Bean – Vermont
fiddler-Bandstand.
1:30-2:30 Fencing demonstration by Vermont Fencing Alliance
in back of park.
2:30 Bastille Day Waiter ’s
Races–amateur adult waiters and
children waiters (North Green
Street in front of Information
Booth).
3:00 - 3:45 Erik and Ericka Andrus - Fiddle and accordion-Bandstand.
3:15-4:15
Vergennes
Opera
House—free—Green
Mountain
Cloggers (Traditional Appalachian
dancing, with foot rhythms and toe
tapping energy performed by a local Chittenden and Addison County troupe) and Celtic Heather
(dancers of all ages from across
northern Vermont perform traditional and contemporary Scottish
Highland & Irish figure dances led
by instructor Heather Morris) performance and workshop.
4:00 St. Peter ’s Catholic Church
(corner of Maple and King St.) will
be open for visitation at 4 p.m., prior to the 5 p.m. mass said in English (church built by French Canadians with doors, etc. from Joseph
Falardo’s mill by Otter Creek
Falls).
Vergennes Opera House performances–Saturday evening.
Buttons must be purchased for
admission.
6:15 Les Ruine-Bottines -trio
from Quebec. 7:15 Va-et-Vient-local Franco-American group.
8:00
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dessert.
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9:00-11:45 Lighting of the Vergennes Falls. Viewing from Falls
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Bigfoot
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away Sasquatch. These
creatures are very secretive.”
Albright said there was a
well publicized 1976 bigfoot
encounter made by Whitehall, N.Y., police officer, Brian Gosselin along Abair
Road; the road is located between Fair Haven and
Whitehall off County Road
11 (Washington County,
N.Y.). The rural road has
been the center of other
sightings since Gosselin’s
famous encounter.
The Abair Road encounter
was featured on “Unsolved
Mysteries,” a popular television show of the 1990s host-

ed by the late actor Robert
Stack. Millions of viewers
learned about the Whitehall
creature — but was it Bigfoot or something less exotic?
Albright
said
Paul
Bartholomew, a Whitehall
researcher, proposed an ordinance to protect Bigfoot in
the town of Whitehall back
in 2004.
“Paul wrote the excellent
book “Bigfoot: Encounters
in New York and New England” which inspired me to
search for the creature locally,” he said.
According to Albright,
NESRA researchers explored the Whitehall-Fair
Haven region in search of
Sasquatch as recently as
2005.
“There’s sure a lot of in-

terest in Bigfoot around
here; Officer Gosselin wasn’t the only well-respected
member of the community
to see Bigfoot up close,” Albright added.
According to Albright,
Bigfoot sightings have been
reported here as far back as
the First Nation Iroquois.
“There are legends of
mysterious stone giants as
well as sightings of ape-like
giants all along the St.
Lawrence River and on
through the Great Lakes,”
he noted. “Even Samuel de
Champlain reported seeing
a Sasquatch in Canada during the 1600s.”
Albright’s deep woods
adventuring has turned up
several clues. He said he has
found evidence of a giant
apelike creature that freely

crosses forested lands between U.S. Route 7 in Rutland County, Vt., and the
eastern shore of Lake
George, N.Y.
In Albright’s possession,
he claims, is a plaster cast of
a footprint he found along
the shore of Vanderburg
Pond, on the west side of
Vanderburg Mountain (West
Mountain) near Whitehall.
“The footprint looks nearly identical to the giant prehistoric ape Gigantopithecus
blackii,” he said. “This hairy
guy was the original King
Kong of the Ice Age. Cavemen probably tangled with
him.”
Albright declined to show
the footprint cast which he
said is at his brother ’s house
in Lancet, R.I., for safe keeping.

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According to Jack Rink,
associate professor of geography and earth sciences at
McMaster University in
Canada and hominoid expert, Gigantopithecus died
out 300,000 years ago. The
huge ape or hominoid measured 10 feet tall and weighed
up to 1,300 pounds.
“Gigantopithecus was in
the landscape with Homo
erectus up until 300,000
years ago, at a time when
humans were undergoing a
major evolutionary change.
Guangxi province in southern China, where the Gigantopithecus
fossils
were
found, is the same region
where some believe the
modern human race originated,” according to Rink.
But Rink, like many scientists, dismisses amateur

claims such as Albright’s
that Gigantopithecus, aka
Sasquatch, is still a living
species.
Albright said his local
Bigfoot is big.
”You
should
visit
Hartwick College to see the
Gigantopithecus statue on the
campus,” he said.
“This will give you an
idea of the size of Whitehall’s creature,”
New York artist Kevin Anderson sculpted a full-size,
lifelike version of the extinct
hominoid in 2008.
Despite scientific skepticism regarding claims of living animals that should be
extinct, Albright is not giving up his crypto crusade for
the elusive woodland ape.

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CVPS unveils solar array
RUTLAND—Embracing renewable energy and hoping to
educate Vermonters about it,
Central Vermont Public Service
unveiled its new Rutland Town
solar project and renewable energy education center June 22.
CVPS President Bob Young
was joined by Gov. Jim Douglas
and representatives of the
Stafford Technical Center and
International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers-Local 300,
who helped build the most
publicly accessible solar project in the state.
“This will be much more
than just a solar project,” Douglas said. “It is a true renewable education complex, with
hydro generation across Route
7, and a wind measurement
tower that may be replaced
with a wind turbine or two in
the future. Together with the
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the next few years.”
Along with the solar display,
CVPS installed six museumstyle educational displays that
will provide visitors with a
self-guided look at the array
and other forms of renewable
energy. While formal tours will
be available to schools and other organizations, the displays
highlight CVPS’s power supply history and explain how
five different renewable energy
sources create electricity.
The displays are designed
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Blueberries: Easy to grow and healthy, too
University of Vermont

Blueberries are one of the
most popular and healthful
fruits, are easy to grow, and
can be grown as an ornamental shrub. Many have
colorful red fall leaves. If
you like eating blueberries
from the store or picking
your own, consider if you
might have the space and
conditions for growing them
in your landscape. The most
important aspects for growing blueberries successfully
are choosing hardy varieties
and having the right soil.
There are five main
groups of blueberries, representing three main species.
The northern highbush (Vaccinium corymbosum) and
lowbush (Vaccinium angustifolium) are the main
species for northern gardeners, as well as hybrids of
these called “half-high”.
While the highbush reach
from 6 to 15 feet high, depending on climate and cultivar (cultivated variety),
the lowbush only reach a
foot or so high. The halfhigh reach from 3 to 5 feet
high. These northern groups
need sufficient cold to produce flowers, then fruit, so
are not suitable for southern
gardens. There you’ll see
rabbiteye and southern
highbush cultivars. There
are many cultivars to choose
from within each of these
groups, varying mainly in
time of bloom and fruit size.
When choosing blueberry
cultivars, you’ll want at
least 2 if not 3 different ones
for cross pollination unless
they are one of the few listed as “self fertile”. Make
sure to choose ones from the
same group as, for instance,
a low bush wont pollinate a
highbush type. Make sure
too that they are listed to
bloom the same time. You’ll
find cultivars listed as early,
mid, or late season. Although this often refers to
ripening of the berries, relative bloom time is similar
except for some commercial
cultivars. So the bees can
move the pollen among your
different bushes, plant them
near each other or preferably intermixed.
Other than getting the
right cultivars, you’ll need
the right soil for blueberries
to succeed. They like plenty
of organic matter in the soil,
and well-drained soils so
roots don’t rot. Perhaps the
most
important
point
though is to have acid
soils—ones with a low pH of
4.5 to 5.2. You can probably
get by with a pH of up to 6.0
if you use plenty of peat

moss which is acidic. Sulfur
also can be used to lower the
pH. If soils are more alkaline (most plants grow best
with a pH of 6.0 to 7.0—the
latter being neutral), it may
be more work yearly to try
and lower the pH than
worth it.
One solution if the soil pH
is too high is to get a shorter
cultivar, such as lowbush or
half-high, and plant in a container. Just make sure it is
large enough, perhaps 15 to
20 gallon size, or 18 to 24
inches wide and 12 to 15
inches deep. You can plant
container and all right in the
ground. If left above
ground, make sure to bring
into an unheated shed or
garage over winter that
wont allow the soil to freeze.
Ample ground heat protects
roots in the ground during
winter, something roots
above ground in pots don’t
get. Container blueberries
also are great for small gardens. When planting in containers, use half peat moss
and half potting soil.
Once you have the right
cultivars, and soil, plant as
you would other shrubs.
Give enough space—at least
5 to 7 feet apart for the highbush, 3 to 5 feet apart for the

half-high, and 2 to 3 feet
apart for the lowbush. Add
plenty of peat moss or compost, or both, when planting. Blueberry roots are near
the surface and sensitive to
drying out, so don’t allow
them to dry before planting
and water well once planted. Keep them well-watered
until established, and even
later when droughts. Several inches of mulch helps retain moisture, and helps prevent weeds. Hand-pulling
weeds is best so not to damage their shallow roots with
a hoe.
Since blueberries usually
begin bearing fruit when 4 to
5 years old, buying older
and larger plants will give
you fruit in fewer years. You
don’t really need to prune
bushes, except to remove
broken or rubbing branches,
until they are much older.
They do need some fertilizer, such as a cup of 5-3-4 or
similar for young plants,
more for larger mature ones.
Apply this in early spring,
and perhaps again in late
June. Don’t apply much later so plants will harden
properly for winter. Also
you can use acidic fertilizers
as you find for azaleas and
hollies.

If leaves are reddish or
have reddish dots, and are
overall light green to yellowish, they may need more
nitrogen such as from ammonium sulfate. If leaves
are light green between
veins, this is a common
symptom indicating iron deficiency. This, in turn, may
mean the soil pH is too high.
Check it first, and correct if
needed, and the iron deficiency may be solved too.
Whether you grow your
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Eating more blueberries,
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narrow margin in 2008.
After more than thirty years as an educator, Oxholm retired from her administrative position at
Addison Northwest Supervisory Union in 2008.
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Vermont Lake Monsters
pitching dominated the TriCity Valley Cats by throwing three straight shutouts
at them in a three game series played at historic Centennial Field in Burlington
last
Monday
through
Wednesday. In the threegame series with Tri-City,
the Lake Monsters allowed
just 10 hits with eight walks
and 24 strikeouts in 27 scoreless innings. It is the first
time in Vermont history that
the Lake Monsters have
recorded three straight
shutouts.
The Lake Monster improved to 10-3 with the
sweep and remained two
games ahead of Connecticut
in the New York-Penn
League’s Stedlar Division.
This is the club’s best start in
the team’s 17-year history.
In the series opener Monday night Stephen King and
Ronnie LaBrie each led off
an inning wth a home run
and three Lake Monster
pitchers combined on a fourhit shutout as Vermont beat
the Tri-City ValleyCats 2-0.
King led off the fourth inning by lining a 3-2 pitch
from Valley Cat starter Carlos Quevedo just inside the
leftfield foul pole for his second home run of the season
to give Vermont a 1-0 lead.
One inning later LaBrie
hit the first pitch of the inning from Quevedo over the
leftfield fence to give the
Lake Monsters the 2-0 lead.
It was LaBrie’s first home
run of the season and his
first home run for Vermont
since going deep last season
in the season-opener at Lowell June 19.
Vermont starter Taylor
Jordan (1-0) allowed just
three hits with two walks
and five strikeouts over five
innings to pick up his first
win of the season. Jordan
has now allowed just two
earned runs with 14 strikeouts over his first 14 2/3 innings in three starts for the
Lake Monsters.
Tri-City’s best chance to
score came in the top of the
second when a Ben Heath
leadoff double and a LaBrie
error gave the Valley Cats
runners on first and third
with no outs. But Jordan
struck out Daniel Adamson
looking, got Nick Stanley to
fly out to shallow left and
Oscar Figueroa to groundout to get out of the jam.
Reliever Ben Graham gave
up one hit with two walks
and three strikeouts in three
scoreless innings, while
Dustin Crane tossed a perfect ninth inning for his second save. Quevedo (0-1) allowed the two solo homers
and four hits with six strikeouts over six innings to take
the loss for Tri-City (4-7).
On Tuesday the Vermont

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Photo courtesy the Lake Monsters

Lake Monsters shutout the
Tri-City ValleyCats for the
second straight night with a
4-0 victory.
Starter Chad Jenkins (1-1)
allowed just one hit with one
walk and seven strikeouts
over his five innings of work
for the win. Jenkins, who
was touched for five runs on
six hits in just 3 1/3 innings
at Tri-City June 24, allowed
just a one-out walk in the
first inning and a leadoff
single in the fourth.
Wilson Eusebio tossed
three scoreless innings of relief, while Neil Holland
gave up a leadoff single in
the ninth before getting a
double play and pop out to
end the game.
The Lake Monsters would
get all four of their runs early with one in the first and
three in the second inning.
Hendry Jimenez walked to
leadoff the bottom of the
first, advanced to second on
a sacrifice bunt and scored
on a David Freitas RBI single. It was just the second
first-inning run of the season for Vermont in 12 games
(Lake Monster pitchers have
not allowed a first-inning
run all year).
Cole Leonida led off the
second with an infield single
and advanced to second on a
throwing error before scoring on a Marcus Jones RBI
double down the leftfield

line. Jones would score later
in the inning on a Jimenez
RBI groundout and Justin
Miller scored on a Jason
Martinson RBI single to center for the 4-0 lead.
Martinson, Freitas, Jones
and Stephen King each had
two hits for the Lake Monsters, while Wilton Infante
and Ben Orloff accounted
for the Valley Cats two hits.
Bobby Doran (0-2) allowed
four runs on six hits in four
innings to take the loss for
Tri-City (4-8). The victory
was the third straight for the
Lake Monsters.
Vermont pitchers completed deal on Wednesday
night by pitching their third
straight shutout, while Russell Moldenhauer hit two
home runs and Justin Miller
hit a three-run homer to lead
the Lake Monsters to an easy
8-0 win, and a three game
sweep of the visiting Valley
Cats.
With
the
three
shutouts Vermont pitchers
had tossed 30 straight scoreless innings dating back to
the seventh inning at Connecticut on the previous
Sunday.
Wednesday’s starter Matt
Swynenberg (2-0) gave up
just three hits with two
strikeouts over six innings
to lower his ERA to 0.56 for
his three starts. Starters
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and Chad Jenkins combined

Lee, Boyd at Centennial Field
Former Major League Baseball pitchers
Bill Lee and Oil Can Boyd will be at historic
Centennial Field July 17 to sign autographs
as the Vermont Lake Monsters host the Staten Island Yankees.
Lee and Boyd both pitched for the Boston
Red Sox and the extinct Montreal Expos during their MLB careers. Lee went 119-90 with
19 saves and a 3.62 ERA in 416 games during his 14-year career (1969-82). Boyd went
78-77 with a 4.04 ERA in 214 games during
his 10-year career (1982-91).
Also appearing at Centennial Field this
summer is former Major League pitcher Luis

Tiant on July 24 and ESPN Baseball Insider
Buster Olney on Aug. 6.
Tiant went 229-172 with a 3.30 ERA over
573 games during his 19-year career (196482). Olney, who can be seen on ESPN's Baseball Tonight and also writes for ESPN, grew
up in Randolph.
All four will be at Centennial to sign autographs before and during that night's Lake
Monsters game In addition, the first 500 fans
at the Aug. 6 game will receive a Buster Olney bobblehead doll.

to allow just seven hits with
three walks and 14 strikeouts in 16 innings in the
three-game series. Reliever
Colin Bates gave up one hit
with one walk and four
strikeouts in three innings to
pick up his second save of
the year.
The Lake Monsters offense scored six times in the
bottom of the second inning
off Tri-City starter Murilo
Gouvea. Moldenhauer got
the inning started with a
solo home run to right for
his first professional hit in
his fifth at bat with Vermont.
Cole Leonida followed
with a ground ball single
and after a sacrifice bunt
scored on a Ronnie LaBrie
RBI single to rightfield. Marcus Jones was then hit by a
pitch and Miller followed
with a three-run homer to
left for his first home run of
the season and a 5-0 lead.
One out later Jason Martinson walked, stole second
and scored on a two-base
wild pitch to close out the
scoring in the inning.
The score stayed 6-0 until
the eighth when Stephen
King singled with two outs
and Moldenhauer followed
by hitting an 0-2 pitch over
the fence in right field for a
two-run homer and his second home run of the game.
He is the first Lake Monsters
with a two-homer game at
Centennial Field since Steve
Souza hit a pair against
Lowell on June 26, 2008.

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14 - THE EAGLE

Africa
From page 1
Now, three decades after her
first African trek, Kathleen
Colson travels to droughtstricken northern Kenya twice
a year. She spends a month
during each trip visiting key
villages and gaining the trust
of residents as the founder and
executive director of the
BOMA Fund.
BOMA is a non-profit organization that provides skill
training and seed capital to
Africa’s poorest women. Colson helps the women establish
small businesses that provide
them with incomes—a first
step that helps improve their
lives and the lives of their families.
As an example, when visiting BOMA’s “customers” in
the remote village of Kirkuum,
Kenya, Colson can be found
sitting under the community’s
thorn tree—a kind of “town
square” gathering place. There
she discusses life and personal woes, as well as small business and personal savings
ideas with BOMA’s women entrepreneurs.
Kirkuum’s
women have led lives barely
clear of the Stone Age. Their
lives as livestock tenders are at
an end as drought in the region has destroyed old
lifestyles. Small businesses
may include the making and
distribution of locally made
products as well as other
items.

It’s clear that villagers love
Colson. Men and women call
her Mamma Rungu, a nickname of endearment and respect; the term means “Mother with a Big Stick”.
Colson likes to carry a long
marungu, a native wooden
hunting club that closely resembles an Iroquois war club.
“I got my nickname because
the villagers think I’m pretty
tough,” she said. “Women
aren’t supposed have these
weapons.”
In the semiarid lawless
backcountry of Kenya’s Great
Rift Valley—where armed and
violent Somali bandits and
rustlers roam with impunity—
you may need more than a
marungu. That’s why Colson is
always accompanied by observant trail scouts and armed security guards.
“Our guards carry AK-47
automatic rifles,” she said. “I
am also trained to shoot one, if
need be. And yes, we’ve been
shot at by bandits with machine guns.”
So why would a middleaged woman choose to put
herself in harm’s way in a
Third World country?
“It’s about social justice,”
she said. “I was invited to
Kenya by a close friend, and a
member of Parliament, Joseph
Lekuton. I met Joseph through
my safari business. When
Joseph said to me, ‘Come I
need your help’, how could I
say no? Little did I know it
would turn into my life’s

work.
Now Colson works 7 days a
week, 12-14 hours a day, on the
BOMA Fund.
“Kenya is seven hours
ahead timewise this time of
year, so I am up at 4:30 a.m.
every day. Staying in touch via
telephone and the Internet—
plus making multiple visits
there—is the only way I know
to build a viable organization.”
The BOMA Fund is best described as a grassroots microfinance
organization—the
fund helps start small businesses through its signature
program called REAP or Rural
Entrepruener Access Project .
“So far, we have launched
260 businesses in northern
Kenya,” she said. “Each has
five people with an average of
25 children. That’s 1,300
women earning an income
outside of livestock. So, we
impact 1,300 adults plus 6,500
children.”
It’s clear Colson is on a mission.
She’s determined to bring
self reliance to Kenya’s struggling ethic groups, the
Rendille, Samburu, Turkana,
Elmolo and Ariaal people.
“Foreign aid doesn’t work,”
Colson said. “Billions of dollars later, Africa is poorer than
it was 30 years ago. Most aid
organizations focus on intent
not on outcomes. BOMA focuses on results. If you’re not
demanding that a charity
show transparency and ac-

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Robinella (Robin Ella Tipton) is a swinging singersongwriter from East Tennessee offering a blend of
progressive-blues and jazz-blues. For her performance at 7 p.m.July 14, she will be joined by Mike Seal
on guitar. At 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Festival audience members will be treated to the music of Frank
Vignola and his trio.
Saxophonist and composer Nathan Childers and
his band perform at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 15.
Originally from Brandon, Childers has been playing
the saxophone since he was ten years old.
Le Vent du Nord performs traditional Quebecois
musicat 8:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Brooks Williams is a blues singing, guitar picking,
bottleneck slide playing at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 16.
Mac Arnold and band performs at 8:30 p.m. on Friday.
Community members Joe McVeigh and Leila
Menard have a sentimental attachment to the festival’s traditional Middlebury Street Dance; festivalgoers are encouraged to arrive right at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, to learn some basic swing dance steps
from Jim Condon in preparation for dancing the
night away.
Volunteers pass the “hat” during intermissions at
performances to help raise the additional funds
needed to cover budgeted expenses of approximately $35,000.
Festival volunteers will also be selling raffle tickets for the chance to win fabulous prizes donated by
area businesses: a $200 U.S. Savings Bond donated
by the National Bank of Middlebury; a $100 gift certificate, a hand-colored print of a farm scene, a polyester rope hammock, and a metal wood rack. Tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5.
For more details, call 802-462-3555.

countability, of course the
money is going to disappear.
And I don’t blame the
Africans.”
Here’s a lesson about enabling people to remain in
poverty that could easily be
applied here at home—
“We have a tendency to give
things away in Africa. People
don’t do that in Brazil, in China or in India. The goodwill industry in Africa has destroyed
markets. There are hillsides of
used clothing in Africa. It has
destroyed the textile industry
in Africa.”
In recognition of Colson’s
tireless work, St. Lawrence
University awarded its illustrious 1979 alumna with a special humanitarian award June
5.
While an award always
looks nice on the mantle, there
is an even sweeter ward in the
form of a humble testimonial
about Colson and BOMA that
came from a burgeoning
Kenyan
businesswoman
named Sipirian Lalamaal:
“We decided not to eat this
(BOMA grant) money, because
even if we were given a million
shillings it would eventually
be finished. This business
gives us life,” she said.
Check It Out: Your $50 to the
501(c)3 nonprofit BOMA Fund
helps support one African woman
as part of a group of five who will
work together in a small business. Visit www.bomafund.org to
learn more about how to get involved.

Hinesburg woman found
after reported missing
HINESBURG — A missing Hinesburg has apparently been
found, according to Vermont State Police. On June 29, Mitzie
Lee Burnor, age 25, of Hinesburg was reported missing by
a family member. Before she contacted her family June 30,
Burnor had last spoken to a relative during the morning
hours of June 23; she has not been heard from or seen until
June 30. She is employed by Buffalo Wings in South Burlington.

Don’t know much about history?
MIDDLEBURY — Bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis
will discuss his latest book, “A Nation Rising” about untold
tales of flawed founders, fallen heroes, and forgotten fighters from America’s hidden history at Ilsley Public Library
in downtown Middlebury on Wednesday, July 7, at 7 p.m.
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STARKSBORO
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STARKSBORO - 2806 Route
16, Starksboro. Sunday worship 11am. Chat, Chew &
Renew, a pre-worship fellowship and discussion time 10am10:45am. Sunday mornings in the Fellowship Hall on the
accessible first level. All are welcome. First Baptist is an
American Baptist church yoked with The Community
Church of Huntington for support of its pastor, The Rev.
Larry Detweiler revdets@gmail.com; 802.453.5577.

LINCOLN
UNITED CHURCH OF LINCOLN - Sunday worship service
9:45, Church school 11:15am, united Student Ministries
for grades 7-12, 6:30pm Sunday evenings. 453-4280

VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH, Rev. Ed Wheeler, services on
Sundays: Sunday School for all ages at 9:30am, morning
worship at 10:45am (nursery provided), and 6:30pm on
Wednesdays; Youth Group and AWANA meet on Thursday
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Police
From page 16
purse, Lake Dunmore Road, Salisbury.
•Two vehicle accident, with injuries, U.S.
Route 7, Ferrisburgh.
•Burglary and theft of alcohol at a residence, Ripton Road, Lincoln.
•Burglary at a camp, Notch Road, Bristol.
•Welfare check, Fern Lake Road, Leicester.
•Burglary and theft of a safe from a residence, Hardscrabble Road, Bristol.
•Two vehicle accident, no injuries,
Richville Road, Shoreham.
June 27
•Theft of cigarettes from a vehicle parked
at a campsite and other items from the
campsite, Larabee Point, Shoreham.
•Theft of a television from a church,
School Road, Shoreham.
•Motorcycle accident, with injuries, Long
Point Road, Ferrisburgh.
•Theft of a lock box from a residence, Oak
Hill Lane, Leicester.
•Cited Joseph Lilly, age 20, of Bridport
into Court for Unlawful Mischief, Disorderly Conduct, and Disturbing the Peace by
Phone, West Street Cornwall–Jan. 7, 2010.

BRINGING IN THE FEED—June was a busy month for Addison County farmers. Longer days with increased sunshine help stimulate feed crops for
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after Derek
Deviate from a course
Land bordering los
Pirineos
Macbeth’s burial isle
Penned?
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Clouseau’s rank: Abbr.
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13 are arranged in the
roughly north-to-south
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start of school; deadline is August 16, 2010.
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